Last week, Nathan Stanton visited CalArts to talk about the Pixar story team. It was fantastic talking to him about working at Pixar, along with plenty of invaluable story advice for we future film-makers.

Best of all though, he gave us all Pixar promotional pens. John and I don't write with them. Instead we put them in a place of honor above our desks like the picture above. It's a constant reminder of what we should be working towards

Sunday, October 2, 2011

For story class, we had to create characters for a pitch for the class. My characters were developed as a forgotten expedition to the North Pole, assumed to end in disaster.

Major Wick is the fearless leader, plagued with insanity, and his closest companion is a frozen herring named Dima. His crew includes Pook, the silent but friendly Eskimo, Mr. Scwitz an ice-fishing tourist who got more than he bargained for, and Dr. Merriman, the crew's navigator, who was swallowed by a polar bear.